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Engineering Libraries American Society for Engineering Education Nancy Schiller, Editor March 1994 Science & Engineering Library, SUNY-Buffalo 7 16-645-2946 Fax: 716-645-37 10 [email protected] Message From the Chair This year I have received an inquiry from one publisher, Please let me know your opinions of ELD making its Professional Publications, which publishes all those mailing list available to publishers of science and professional exam books and other career-oriented engineering materials. guides, handbooks, and manuals. Professional Publications is a relatively small publisher, with sixty Cecilia Mullen some publications currently in print. Their inquiry was to ELD Chair ask for our EL0 mailing list. I did check with ASEE San Jose State University Headquarters, and their policy on this matter is that any One Washington Square distribution of mailing lists must first meet with Division San Jose, CA 951 92-0028 approval. With that approval, ASEE will distribute the 408-924-2813 mailing list as prescribed by the Division. Only ASEE can E-mail: mullen@sjsuvml .sjsu.edu distribute mailing lists and they assess the charges. Their charges are quite reasonable, however. Costs for each set of labels are based on a setup fee of $30.00 And a Reminder from the Editor plus $.07 per label. ELD membership is approximately 150 this year. For a division of 150 members, ASEE Just a reminder that April 15, 1994, is the deadline for would charge $40.50. This low cost (whether inten- submissions to the May issue of the ELD Newsletter. tional or not) allows for a Division to also profit from the Like last year, we will be including in the May issue all transaction if they should stipulate that a donation of a annual ELD officer and committee chair reports so that specified amount needs to be made to the Division. In they are available to ELD members in advance of the this case, ASEE would deposit that prescribed amount annual business meeting at the conference in Edmonton into the Division's BASS account. in June. ELD does not have big money-making projects to --Nancy Schiller, ELD Newsletter Editor replenish our bank account, so it is important to consider new ways to keep our account moving in a positive Also in This Issue ... direction. With the current procedure for producing our Literature Guide series, ELD collects 10% of the profits. ELD-Quarterly Committee Reports ........... 2 Our publications sales and annual dues are the only New Member Bios ...................... 2 positive cash flows for our Division. It would be nice to Edmonton Program Needs You .............. 3 have an additional source of funding such as the mailing Conference Site Attractions ................. 3 labels could produce. Again, not a big money-maker but, Cornell Engineering Library Flood ............ 5 for example, if ELD were to request a donation of People & Places ........................ 6 $100.00 for each mailing list sent out to a publisher, Request for Help ....................... 7 ELD could enjoy some monetary benefit and members ELD Membership Directory Updates .......... 8 would benefit by a publisher's mailing. Job Opportunities ....................... 9 Page 2 Engineering Libraries Division Newsletter March 1994 - ENGINEERING LIBRARIES DIVISION from Australia, four from Spain, three each from Brazil and Great Britain, two from the Netherlands, and one Quarterly Committee Reports each from Belgium, Egypt, Ireland, Israel, Italy, and Panama. Much credit goes to all the people who play big roles (behind the scenes) in the work that is done to Publications Committee Report stay on top of membership issues--and to Felicia ASEE has provided sales figures for the recent ELD Guglielmi, at ASEE HQ, who is doing a great job of Literature Guides through December 31, 1993. The hanging in there with us while we do the best we can to totals are as follows: both "groww our membership figures and strive to keep track of all you fine ELD folks! As always, please Title Number Sold address any membership status questions and send along any recruitment "leads" you might have to me. Advanced Ceramics 16 My e-mail address is [email protected]. Artificial lntelliaence 47 --Glee Willis, Membership Committee Chair New Member Bios Telecommunications 19 This issue of the Newsletter features several new Union List 175 members from the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, area who we are pleased to welcome to the Division. Sales thus far will generate about $300 for ELD's BASS account. The above-listed publications have been Aimee DeChambeau has a BS in Education, a Library advertised on listservs including ELDNET, PAMNET, BI-L, Science certification K-12 from Clarion University, and and LibRef-L. There was also a printed ad in the an MLS with a specialty in Agricultural lnformation from November 1993 issue of Sci-Tech News, page 37. the University of Pittsburgh. She is currently completing an Advanced Studies Certificate in Automation Design at --Tom Conkling, Publications Committee Chair Pitt while working part-time as a Science Reference Librarian in the Carnegie Public Library's Science and Membership Committee Report Technology Department. Prior to this, Aimee worked as Interesting membership tidbits: 31 % of ELDNET-L a Science lnformation Specialist at the Engineering and subscribers are members of ELD (93 of the 298, as of Science Library at Carnegie Mellon University. Aimee is February 16, 1994). The ELD roster now numbers 150 interested in how library users interact with online members. Approximately 10 more ASEE members catalog interfaces. haven't yet paid their ELD divisional dues for this year, so the actual ELD membership count is probably 160. David Peck is a Science lnformation Specialist at the This is wonderful news--we are definitely gaining Engineering and Science Library of Carnegie Mellon strength in numbers! I have sent out a total of 153 University, where he provides reference services and is recruitment packets since the annual conference in responsible for collection development/departmental Urbana--and continue to do so at the customary rate of liaison activities for Chemical Engineering, Mechanical 5 + per week (mostly to new subscribers to ELDNET-L). Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering. Almost 60% of all ELD members are also members of David also supervises the CMU Libraries' Courier services ELDNET-L, and Mel DeSart, ELDNET-L editor, and I are as well as ILL for the Engineering and Science Library, working on upping that percentage. Meanwhile, both and helps in database testing. He is currently involved the ELD roster and the ELDNET-L subscribership manifest in testing and development of CMU's version of the marvelous "international" flavors to them. ELD TULIPIElsevier project. David received his MLS from membership includes folks from Canada, as well as Clarion University of Pennsylvania. He has a BS in people from Finland, France, Israel, Korea, Peru, and chemistry from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Saudi Arabia. ELDNET-L subscribership includes 18 PhD in organic chemistry from the University of electronic mail addresses from Canadian domains, 10 Minnesota. His pre-MLS science research experience includes a postdoc at the University of Pittsburgh and March 1994 Engineering Libraries Division Newsletter page--3 industrial chemical research at Allied SignaLDavid is its beginning as the Hudson Bay Fur Trading Post of interested in improving the delivery of information to the 1846. The park sprawls over 158 acres in the North scientific community, the application of intellectual Saskatchewan river valley and contains a full-scale property laws to libraries and electronic information, and replica of Fort Edmonton as it was in 1846. The, picnic the preservation/use of CD-ROMs. is a must event for all conference attendees! Terry Wittig received her MLS from the University of The other major social event for ELD members is our Pittsburgh. For the past four years she has worked at annual dinner which is held on Tuesday evening. It the Engineering and Science Library at Carnegie Mellon follows our Division's annual business meeting (to which University, where she serves as the liaison for the all ELD members are invited), and is a great way to relax Mathematics, Physics, and Electrical and Computer after a full day of activity. This year's dinner will be held Engineering Departments. Terry is also the Collections in a local Edmonton restaurant which promises to provide Coordinator for the CMU Science Libraries. Prior to us with a further glimpse of local color and hospitality. joining CMU, Terry worked in the Rotch Library of Please make sure to attend! Architecture and Urban Planning at MIT. Terry is active in the Science and Technology Section of the In the May issue of the newsletter I will be providing the Association of College and Research Libraries. last-minute details on speakers and presentations for the Edmonton program. But don't wait until then to register! --compiled by Glee Willis, Membership Committee Chair Register by April 1 st and be eligible for an all-expenses- paid trip to the conference, including a two-night, Edmonton Program three-day vacation at the scenic Jasper Park Lodge. Needs You --Steve Gass, ELD Program Chair As I write this update on ELD's program for the 1994 Conference Site: Edmonton conference, I have just received the It Really is the Frozen North! preliminary conference schedule from ASEE. I believe that ELD has put together an exciting program which will benefit all who can attend. The December Newsletter Area Attractions/Places of Interest provided a listing of all our activities. The program has Well, it is minus 31.5 degrees Celsius this morning, so it not changed since then. We will be offering exciting is hard to think about "attractions" in Edmonton, even programs on document delivery, TULIP (Elsevier's for us die-hard Edmontonians.